Leadership
What Employees Remember About a Leader
Ask a room of working women to name the best boss they ever had, and the answers come quickly. The stories that follow are rarely about quarterly targets o...
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Leadership
Health & Wellness
The Health Checks Women Keep Putting Off
Nine in ten women say regular health screenings matter. Yet 43% have skipped or delayed one their health care professional recommended, according to a Gall...
Health & Wellness
Maybe You Don't Need a Fresh Start
Somewhere in the second week of a plan, usually on a Wednesday, a thought arrives that sounds very reasonable. The plan has gone a little sideways, and the...
Leadership
Sixty Days Left in the Year
On the first Monday of November, about sixty days remain in the year. That is nine weeks, and most of us treat them as a runway to the holidays instead of...
Career
Ten Seconds Before You Press Paste
In the spring of 2023, Samsung let engineers at its semiconductor business use ChatGPT to help with their work. Within a few weeks, the Korean outlet Econo...
Voices
The People Who Only Call When They Need Something
You see their name on your phone, and before you answer, you already know what's coming. Maybe it's an introduction, advice on a business problem...
Career
Your Résumé Probably Needs an Update
In 2012, the job site TheLadders tracked the eyes of 30 professional recruiters over ten weeks as they reviewed résumés and candidate profiles. The recruit...
Leadership
You Can Be Empathetic and Still Hold People Accountable
Most people who manage others have been here. A team member misses a deadline for the third time, and the manager knows there is something hard going on in...
Essays
Why Starting Over Is So Hard to Talk About
There is a pause that follows when a woman tells someone she is starting over. It is rarely unkind. The other person's face softens, their head tilts...
Voices
Why Adult Female Friendships Can Be So Hard to Maintain
Most close relationships come with something that holds them in place. A marriage has a certificate and a shared address, a family has history and holidays...
Career
You Don't Have to Be Ready for Every Opportunity
Most of us can name an opportunity we read once, felt a flicker of interest in, and then closed. The page stayed open in a tab for a day or two while a qui...
Career
The Broken Rung in the Path to Leadership
Most of us were handed the same picture of how women get stuck at work. A ladder stretches upward, and near the top there is a pane of glass that lets you...
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